The document summarizes funding for sustainability and green initiatives included in an economic stimulus package signed by Congressional leaders. It allocates over $62 billion for direct green spending and $20 billion in green tax incentives. Specific allocations include $11 billion for smart grids, $7.5 billion for renewable energy and transmission lines, $4.5 billion for energy efficiency in federal buildings, $8.4 billion for mass transit programs, and $500 million for green jobs training. It also notes that the MTA removes 3 million drivers from roads daily, eliminating as much CO2 as a forest 15 times the size of Brooklyn.

1. Sustainability in Brooklyn
Public Transportation

2. Congressional leaders signed off
on a final economic stimulus
package that includes transit,
infrastructure and alternative
energy spending.
• the Center for American Progress found
that the bill contains at least $62.2 billion
in direct spending on green initiatives and
$20 billion in green tax incentives, while
funding for nuclear and coal projects was
dropped from the final version.
• Here's the breakdown:

3. Energy transmission and
alternative energy research
• $11 billion for smart grid
• $7.5 billion for renewable energy and
transmission-line construction
• $400 million for the Department of Energy's
Advanced Research Project Agency for
Energy for the development of alternative
energy sources and efficiency

4. Efficiency
• $4.5 billion for energy-efficiency
improvements to federal buildings
• $6.3 billion for local government energy-
efficiency grants
• $2.25 billion for energy-efficiency retrofits
for low-income housing
• $2.25 billion for the HOME Investment
Partners Program to retrofit community
low-income housing

5. Efficiency…continued
• $5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance
Program for efficiency in low-income households
• $510 million for energy-efficiency retrofits for
Native American housing programs
• $420 million for energy-efficiency improvements
at the Department of Defense
• $300 million for Department of Defense research
on energy efficiency at military installations
• $300 million for the appliance rebate program for
Energy Star products

6. Mass transit and advanced
automobiles
• $8.4 billion for transit capital assistance
programs
• $8 billion for Amtrak and intercity
passenger rail
• $300 million for the purchase of more
alternative-fuel and hybrid vehicles for the
federal fleet
• $300 million in grants and loans for
technologies that reduce diesel emissions

7. Green jobs training:
• $500 million for green jobs programs
through the Workforce Investment Act

8. Each day the MTA removes 3
million potential drivers from the
roads, eliminating as much as
much CO2 as 684,444 acres of
forest, that’s a forest 15 times the
size of Brooklyn.

9. Population & Means of
Transportation

10. % Used Public
Transportation

11. Subway: Monthly Ridership

12. Bus: Monthly Ridership

13. Subway: Annual Ridership

14. Bus: Annual Ridership

15. Household Income

16. Median Household
Income

17. Energy Consumption by Sector

18. Energy Consumption per Capita

19. Energy Consumption per Capita
by State

20. Transportation Energy
Consumption (Trillion Btu)

21. New York & U.S. Motor-Fuel Use
(Millions of Gallons)

22. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from
Different Transportation

23. Things left to find out:
# of cars registered in bk
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%inflation of mta fare vs average income
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How much money gov. puts into mta
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Map of new bus routes
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Energy-transportation sustainability
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24. Some Sources:
• http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-
bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=286
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html
• www.socialexplorer.com
• http://www.mta.info/index.html
• http://www.rita.dot.gov/
• http://www.plannyc.org/neighborhood_search#
• http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/land
_use.cfm
• http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffenvironment.ht
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